MTN Slashes Its Out Of Data Bundle Rates
MTN has slashed its out of bundle (OOB) data rate by up to 75 percent for prepaid customers. The mobile operator will also be doubling selected prepaid voice and data bundles for the next two months. Prepaid customers currently not making use of data bundles will pay just 29c per megabyte for their data usage, […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Offers Asylum To Woman On Pakistani Death Row
Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who spent eight years on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy, is moving to Canada after accepting an offer of asylum by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, HuffPost UK can reveal. The news comes as Pakistan’s top court today rejected a challenge to the acquittal of the mother-of-five on blasphemy charges, after she was […]
Traditions That Make Women Go Against FGM Laws – These Women See It As Normal
“It’s normal pain. Just like a knife cut which many people especially women once in a while encounter while preparing a meal.” This is how Ms Joan Cherop (not real name), 23, a candidate of female genital mutilation (FGM) candidate described the cultural practice, which, according to Ugandan laws is illegal. In 2010 Parliament enacted […]
The Urgency Need For A Revolutionised Sex Education
Fatima, who was 14, sat opposite me. There was a defiance to her body language, yet a vulnerability that made me want to tell her it was okay to cry. She was telling me how, in the course of the past year, she had dropped out of the school theatre club, no longer had any […]
How To Understand The Non-Verbal Cues In Business
Life, and business, are a series of negotiations. Whether you’re negotiating a contract for a new job, creating or dissolving a business partnership, or simply negotiating with your spouse over who will make dinner that night, negotiation is an unavoidable – and often uncomfortable – part of life. In any type of negotiation, we all […]
Lucy Kalapura Is Fighting To End Sexual Abuse In India’s Churches Despite Threats
When Bishop Franco Mulakkal returned to the Jalandhar diocese in October after spending 21 days in jail, his supporters welcomed him back with massive garlands and showers of rose petals. As images of the hero’s welcome given to the rape-accused priest filled her TV screen and social media timeline, something snapped in sister Lucy Kalapura. The 52 […]
Women Lead The Way For Justice In The Gambia
Women who had direct and indirect experiences with gender-based violence during the Yahya Jammeh dictatorship have been gathering in The Gambia with the support of ICTJ and a group known as the kaneleng. In December 2018, the kaneleng gathered for a two-day summit to work on ways to engage women from communities who will be […]
Saudi Women’s Rights Activist Loujain Alhathloul Gets Detained For Speaking For Women
In the article, Walid Alhathloul writes that during a recent visit by his parents to see Loujain she told them she was regularly whipped, beaten, electrocuted and sexually harassed in a basement she called the “palace of terror.” Alhathloul was arrested in May 2018, along with 10 other women’s rights activists in Saudi Arabia. Her family, […]
Local NGO, NIPO Intensifies Debate For Women Political Participation In Liberia
A local pro-democracy and women rights advocacy group working in Southeastern Liberia, National Institute for Public Opinion (NIPO), has raised alarm on the issue low turnout of women participating in politics in Liberia. NIPO called for the increase in the number of women in various counties of the Liberia’s male dominated politics. The Executive Director […]
Female Journalists Admonished To Embrace New Technology
Female journalists from Africa and beyond have been called upon to acquire more skills and knowledge on the use of new technologies that would make them communicate to the masses better. Speaking when she opened a five day leadership training for female journalists drawn from 13 countries of Africa also known as boot camp, taking […]
The Power Of A Disruptor, The Will To Innovate and Recreate
Have entrepreneurs lost the will to innovate? Sir Richard Branson doesn’t think so. He’s “never known a more exciting time for innovation,” and I agree 100%. We’ve got self-driving cars, miniaturized medical equipment and private space exploration. What will innovation bring us next? For evidence that disruptive innovators can be spotted in every direction you […]
Liquid Telecom Group Appoints First Female CEO
Strive Masiyiwa’s Liquid Telecom Group has appointed Susan M’kandawire Mulikita as Chief Executive Officer of Liquid Telecom Zambia to accelerate growth and market penetration across the country. She becomes the first female to command such a high post in the leading pan-African telecoms group whose majority executive posts are being held by renowned technocrats such […]
Shelley Zalis The Crusader For Women Equality In The Workplace
Shelley Zalis has been an advertising research pioneer and a trailblazer for the equality of women in the workplace. I’ve had the privilege of seeing her work firsthand with The Girls’ Lounge, the “pop-up” part of The Female Quotient, which Zalis founded to help advance equality, through collaboration and activation. She was the first female chief executive […]
WHO Names Anti-Vaxxers As A Top Threat To Global Health In 2019
The World Health Organization named vaccine hesitancy — the “reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability” — as one of the top threats to global health in 2019. Each year the World Health Organization, or WHO, publishes a list of the ten biggest threats to world health to set its agenda for the next 12 months. This is […]
Cameroonian Journalists Detained While Covering Opposition Gathering
Authorities in Cameroon should immediately release journalists Théodore Tchopa and David Eyengue Nzima, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The two journalists, from privately owned daily newspaper Le Jour, were arrested yesterday while covering an opposition gathering in Douala, Denis Nkwebo, their deputy editor in chief and the president of the Cameroonian journalists’ trade […]